Beta Raiding As A Guild

Approximately a month ago, our guild entered the Oceanic Guild Screenshot Beta Contest and in the final week of the draw we were lucky enough to be chosen as a winner! Only 25 Oceanic guilds were picked in total so this was a really lovely surprise for our guild, and a great way to reward and re-motivate members this close to the end of expansion.

The contest awards 10 beta keys and as a 25 man raiding guild, I certainly didn’t envy the officers having to choose which 9 other players (GM automatically gets 1) would be selected to form a 10 man raid group ready to test the first tier of raiding content released with Cataclysm. In the end the players were chosen not on what is considered perhaps the best group make up, but on their longevity, attendance, performance, attitude etc. We’ll find out first hand if Blizzard’s moto of “Bring the Player, Not the Class” still holds true in the next expansion.

Our Beta raid make up will be:

Tanks:
Warrior
Death Knight

Healers:
Priest
Paladin
Druid (Me!)

Melee DPS:
Paladin
Death Knight

Ranged DPS:
Priest (Cass!)
Mage

Hybrid (DPS/Heals):
Shaman

We also have a Fury Warrior and Shadow Priest with Beta Keys from the guild giving us a 12 member roster for testing over the next 8 weeks. We’ll be raiding on Gilneas (US) PvP Server so if there are any readers on there currently testing out the content make sure you say hello.

Thursday nights are now officially back on the raiding roster and I can’t wait to keep you all posted on what it’s like raiding as resto!

Congratulations! and I’m so looking forward to reading about this. It will be fantastic to have you guys in the Vanguard, telling us about how the new raid feels and plays. (I’m secretly afraid that the mechanics will be so super-hard that normal mortals won’t be able to navigate them.)Xeppe’s last post: Is it me

I’m sure it wont be that bad Xeppe I was really worried doing the dungeons in Beta after all the talk of CC and Wrath players not being able to cope. We managed the entire run without a single bit of CC in our greens and blues, bad lag and no clue where we were going! I’m sure the raiding will be like that too, a little bit to get used to but once your in the swing of it you’ll adapt and cope fine!